Dec 29, 2009

Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut | Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut

At a glance:

Author: J. D. Salinger
First Published: 1948
Type of Plot: Satire
Time of Work: The 1950's
Setting: Suburban Connecticut
Principal Characters: Eloise, Mary Jane, Ramona
Genres: Short fiction, Satire
Subjects: North America or North Americans, Northeast, U.S., United States or Americans, Mothers, Parents and children, Middle classes, Alienation, New England, Emotions, Women, Connecticut, Suburban life
Locales: Connecticut

The Story

Mary Jane, the secretary to a New York executive named Mr. Weyinburg, has most of the day off as a result of her employer's illness but has promised to drop his mail off and take some dictation every afternoon for the duration of his illness. At three o’clock (two hours late for the lunch that her hostess had prepared), she stops to see her friend Eloise at her home in suburban Connecticut. Later she plans to drive on to Larchmont, New York, with Mr. Weyinburg's mail. Eloise, in her camel-hair coat, greets her in front of the house.

Eloise is comfortably...

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Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut | Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut

At a glance:

The Story

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